On 08/31/2012 08:50 AM, Andrew Faulds wrote: > On 31/08/12 16:41, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: >> I think that is a terrible idea. Yes there is some junk in there, but >> there are also a lot of useful stuff and it is something most users >> love. With a bit more attention from people we can improve the quality >> and I think that could start with a better UI and a bit of cheer leading >> from me and other PHP devs to motivate more people to help out. > I see your point, but I'm still concerned about a lot of the bad > solutions. Perhaps the "Official Userland Library" would solve this - we > could move a lot of the code snippets there, and leave the comments behind.
No it won't. It will take years before it has anywhere near the breadth of the user notes and we probably wouldn't want it to come even close because if it did it would have over 10k functions in it. >> Maybe I should push the internals posts to useful contribution ratio >> harder, or we could tie wiki voting to a minimum contribution level. >> Editing notes, handling bug reports, doc commits, code commits, etc. Not >> that I really want to build an accounting system for that, but just try >> to get it into peoples' minds that they need to balance their ranting on >> internals with some positive contributions. > I do try to, but this isn't really the subject of this ml thread, so if > you wish to discuss that, please make a new thread. The subject here is the state of user notes and how quality is declining because of lack of volunteers doing moderation. One suggestion is to kill them because we can't keep up. Another is to increase participation to improve the situation so it is very much on-topic. -Rasmus
